How to Set Up Ports in BizTalk for an ADT^A01 HL7 Message

January 7, 2014

DLLs need to be added to BizTalk to access artifacts in the ports. The following steps show how to add assemblies, set up ports to receive and send an HL7 message and send an acknowledgement which shows whether the message was accepted, produced an error or was rejected.

Open BizTalk Server Administration Console

Expand BizTalk Group

Expand Applications

Expand BizTalk Application1

This is the Application set up for HL7

Right Click “BizTalk Application1” Add->BizTalk Assemblies

Click Add browse to the necessary assemblies

Click OK

Check “Overwrite all”

Check “Add the Global assembly cache on add resource”

Check this for each assembly, If adding multiple assemblies

Click OK

Right Click Receive Ports-> New -> One-way Receive Port

Rename ReceivePort1 to “ReceiveADTA01”

Under Receive Locations Click New

Under General

Rename Receive Location1 to “ReceiveADTA01”

Select “File” for Type

Click Configure

Browse to the location to receive ADTA01 flat file message

Change the File mask to *.* or *.txt if this is the file extension of your message.